The Aug. 17, 2022, R-C Morning Report

Genoa, Nev. — An 8-foot culvert has been placed in the trench on Highway 89 and CalTrans workers are backfilling. They expect to be done by Monday, reopening the road between Markleeville and Woodfords that’s been closed since the Millberry Creek washout on Aug. 3.

The Vacation Home Rental Advisory Committee has canceled today’s meeting at Kahle Community Center. They were going to do some work on the ordinance. That’s going to have to wait.

The ordinance requiring sprinklers in homes more than 1,000 feet from a fire hydrant expires on Thursday, East Fork Fire Protection District trustees were told on Tuesday. Chief Tod Carlini said that the earliest a regulation could be ready is Oct. 18.

I wager we’re going to see a sudden burst of building in the wildland in order to try and beat that regulation. The district still has to sign off on plans for access and water supply, according to the chief. The ordinance still requires sprinklers for homes 5,000 square feet and larger.

Today is National Nonprofit Day. We have a bunch of nonprofit organizations that help make life better right here in Carson Valley. Give your favorite one some love today, maybe in the form of a donation. We’re lucky to have them and grateful for all the important work they do to help our residents.

Most of Northern California is either under a heat advisory or a red flag warning for critical fire danger. The warning starts 2 p.m. today and creeps up to the state line near Verdi and then crosses it in northern Washoe County.

I did my rounds of the weather stations around the Valley and it appears that Johnson Lane got the barest smidge of rain on Tuesday. That may change today, or it may not as the forecast for possible thundershowers covers a dozen Nevada and California counties. We’ll be playing thunderstorm roulette today and Thursday.

The chance of storms in Minden dropped a little bit for today as the last nights clouds clear out this morning. Once the temperatures start to go up, so will the cloud tops. Expect a possibility of showers and thunderstorms after 11 a.m. and before 2 a.m. Thursday.

Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122.